Not sure how long it’s been out, so I may be behind the times as usual, but I’ve been playing this game called Sheltered.
If you’re not aware of it, it’s basically a cross between The Sims and Fallout Shelter and a whole lot more of an oppressive atmosphere. (So I guess it has elements of This War of Mine as well)
You design a family of four (plus a pet) and then set them loose in their underground bunker where they proceed to live out their lives.
It’s pretty challenging or at least it is starting out. Don’t know if it gets any easier because I’ve only played it once so far and my entire family died by day 13.
First problem was realizing that this wasn’t some Vault-Tec shelter with all the basic life necessities. It’s a bare bones shelter and if you want fancy stuff like a toilet so you don’t shit on the floor or a shower because your family is covered in filth from not realizing the shelter didn’t come with a pre-designed toilet, you’ll have to build it all first.
Fortunately, you do have enough supplies to build some of the basics and even upgrade a few of the things, but eventually you’ll have to start going on the surface and search for more stuff. Going up top means hazmat suits, gas masks, and anti-rad pills. You can get into turn based combat encounters, but I never encountered anything in my family’s short survival so I didn’t get to experience that yet.
There are quite a few things you can craft. You’ll have to upgrade the workbench to access them all.
The main problem I had was finding food. All my family members eventually starved to death, except for the daughter who went into catatonia when her mom died. (Which I assume she probably starved soon afterwards, either way the game was over)
Dead family members laying around as you might expect have an ongoing traumatic effect on the living ones as they see them slowly rot away. So you’re going to need to bury them as soon as possible. Hope you have the supplies for that, otherwise you’re going to be stuck with a corpse unless you got an ice box instead.
When the dog died, I tried harvesting it for food, but you need to have an ice box to store meat in. Same thing for family members that die. Apparently you can’t just start eating someone as soon as they die.
Water is surprisingly easy to come by. As long as you keep your water filtration system repaired the rain usually provides you with enough.
There are other people that will come to your shelter every now and then to trade or ask to come in. I never let anyone else inside since I was having a hard enough time with all the people I started with, but the traders come in handy. There are less friendly folks as well, but I didn’t get far enough to suffer any raider type attacks.
Anyway, it’s pretty fun if you’re into the whole sim survival genre.
